The Federal Government is set to re-arraign the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, on an amended six-count treasonable felony charge. The amendment came on a day trial Justice Binta Nyako fixed to hear an application Kanu filed to be released on bail, pending the determination of the charge against […]
A Delta State High Court sitting in Kwale has discharged an order restraining the board of the Central Bank of Nigeria from initiating a process to remove its current Governor, Godwin Emefiele, over his ambition to run for President in 2023 on the platform of the All Progressives Congress. Justice Daniel Maidoh granted the […]
The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, on Monday, admonished newly appointed judicial officers in the country to shun corrupt practices in the discharge of their adjudicatory duties. The CJN gave the charge in his speech at the opening of the 2022 induction course for newly appointed judicial officers of superior courts held […]
Cosmas Ndukwe, a former deputy speaker of Abia state house of assembly, has approached a federal high court in Abuja seeking to stop the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential primary. The PDP presidential primary is scheduled to take place on May 28. Ndukwe filed an ex parte motion marked FHC/ABJ/CS/508/2022, through his lawyer, Paul […]
The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), has asked a Federal High Court in Abuja to dismiss a suit filed against him by the Nigerian Bar Association. The suit was challenging the validity of the rules of professional conduct for lawyers in the country. The AGF said the suit […]
The supreme court has affirmed the nullification of the participation of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidate, Andy Uba, in the November 2021 Anambra governorship election. In the judgment delivered on Tuesday, the apex court, in a unanimous decision by a five-member panel of justices, held that Uba did not emerge through […]
Festus Ogun, a Lagos-based legal practitioner, has filed a suit against President Muhammadu Buhari over the recent petrol scarcity in the country. In February, the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) had confirmed that petrol with methanol content above national specification was imported into the country. Amid efforts to recall the off-spec […]
A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday, ordered former Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, to vacate his seat as a member representing Dass, Tafawa Balewa and Bogoro Federal Constituency of Bauchi State. Delivering judgment, Justice Donatus Okorowo, declared that having defected from Peoples Democratic Party to All Progressives Congress, Dogara was no […]
About one year after her alleged abduction by agents of the Intelligence Response Team of the Nigeria Police Force hitherto led by the suspended DCP Abba Kyari in Imo State, a grandmother, Maria Ezediaro on Thursday, April 21, 2022, regained her freedom. She was said to have been consequently detained at the IRT’s dreaded […]
A Court of Appeal in Abuja has, on Wednesday, lifted the movement restriction on human rights activist and convener of Revolution Now, Omoyele Sowore. Sowore was, in 2019, restricted to Abuja by a Federal High Court following charges of treasonable felony and cyberstalking the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari(retd.), among other offences. The Appeal […]
